In a few more years another cd will be released because as one Tupac fan once told me, "He isn't dead, he is just hiding till the heat cools down." Although, I noticed that after all these years he still hasn't considered it safe to come out. Maybe Tupac and Elvis will come up with some rap and old rock combination that will get all southerners to rejoice in a new friendship built upon the love of the same music.

Scrotastic Method:The fakest rapper in the history of rap. Anyone gives to shiats about Tupac is paying no attention. To anything.

/my holy grail video? When he was the lead in Nutcracker senior year in high school. THUG LIFE.

He wasn't a real gangster? *gasp* Next you're going to tell me that Ice Cube never actually pulled an AK-47 on anyone, or that Marilyn Manson doesn't really worship the devil. It's almost like all these people on MTV were just entertainers putting on a show.

Scrotastic Method:The fakest rapper in the history of rap. Anyone gives to shiats about Tupac is paying no attention. To anything.

/my holy grail video? When he was the lead in Nutcracker senior year in high school. THUG LIFE.

Are you retarded? You must have not been paying attention if you think he's the fakest rapper ever, all I have to say is Vanilla Ice or Rick Ross or Lil Wayne or Jay Z or whatever. He's no X-Raided but Tupac spoke from the heart and he never actually claimed to be a gang banger, just someone who would hang out with the drug dealers because he needed a father figure. Not too many artists have made as music as "real" and from the heart like Tupac did.

/only overrated because some of his fans treat him like some kind of God, but he's still a legend

Even if you don't like him or rap music, if Tupac and Biggie never died guys like Kanye and Lil Wayne might have never happened. Puffy and his shiny suit rappers took over when they died and made the genre a pop genre in the mainstream. I guess in the internet age that doesn't matter anymore, but I always thought Biggie and Tupac dying damaged mainstream hip-hop in a big way. It was like the Altamont of good mainstream hip-hip (aka the hip hop golden age of the late 80s and early 90s).

As a late 80s baby, I came up in the 00s where the only good hip-hop was strictly in the underground and alternative scenes, but it seems times are finally changing thanks to the internet. Oh and it's nice that our era's rock and hip hop artists aren't committing suicide, overdosing, and getting shot that much anymore.

TheJoe03:Scrotastic Method: The fakest rapper in the history of rap. Anyone gives to shiats about Tupac is paying no attention. To anything.

/my holy grail video? When he was the lead in Nutcracker senior year in high school. THUG LIFE.

Are you retarded? [...] Tupac spoke from the heart and he never actually claimed to be a gang banger,

Are YOU retarded? Did you not see his stomach?

What I was saying above is, there are bad asses that rap, and rappers that pretend to be badasses. The latter has the sense not to fark with the former -- usually. Tupac was either too stupid or, more probably, too willing to buy into his own BS not to fark with actual bad guys. He believed his own lie. The jazz and ballet kid from art school put on his sideways bandanna, tatted himself up like he was king of the ghetto, started flashing guns, next thing you know he's in prison for gangraping chicks with his entourage and actual thugs are shooting him.

You aren't always who you pretend to be. But if you try hard enough, you can piss off the people that are who you pretend to be.

/I'm not arguing with you anymore because you just dropped Vanilla Ice like he was a legit rap act

Scrotastic Method:TheJoe03: Scrotastic Method: The fakest rapper in the history of rap. Anyone gives to shiats about Tupac is paying no attention. To anything.

/my holy grail video? When he was the lead in Nutcracker senior year in high school. THUG LIFE.

Are you retarded? [...] Tupac spoke from the heart and he never actually claimed to be a gang banger,

Are YOU retarded? Did you not see his stomach?

In a documentary I saw about Tupac during the interview with Humpty Hump, he said that Thuglife tat was an acronym for something. Sounded forced though when he said it though. I think you are right about him believing his own lie. But so did a lot of other wannabe's, it seemed for awhile there you didnt have any cred until you went to jail, wrote your masterpiece, get out, record it, and become a star. Hell even MC Hammer went gangsta.

Scrotastic Method:/I'm not arguing with you anymore because you just dropped Vanilla Ice like he was a legit rap act

What does legit have to do with anything, he's a perfect example of a fake emcee. Also, don't run from your comment, you said he was the FAKEST, but that not even close to the truth. I know Tupac wasn't a gangsta and he did play up his hardcore image, but I still don't consider him or his music fake (especially when you pay attention to his actual lyrics). Especially not the "fakest".

/BTW, not sure where you're from, but having a tat that says "thug life" saying you're a thug does not indicate gang membership. Being a criminal/thug and a gangbanger are two different things.